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I help you build a smart home without using the cloud.
My mission is to show that a smart home that limits a cloud connection is not only possible, but preferred. Freeing ourselves from any one vendor or solution puts us, the smart home owners, in control of how our data is used.
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Do you use Bluetooth in your smart home?
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It's Home Assistant's birthday today! 🎉
How long have you been using Home Assistant?
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💾 How confident are you in your Home Assistant backups?
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Home Assistant 2025.9 has been released! Check out all the new features here.
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What sort of "monthly update" type of videos do you want to see?
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What type of smart home videos do you like watching the most?
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Home Assistant 2025.8 is out today! Here are all the changes in this release.
Are you installing it or skipping this version?
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FYI: Belkin is ending support for their Wemo product line in January: www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=335419
The article above lists the affected devices.
This means that any Wemo product that currently connects to their cloud servers will stop working at that time. Devices that use HomeKit/Matter/Thread will still work, but may not be able to factory reset if it reaches out to a cloud.
Another reason to have cloud-free smart home devices!
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For those who have the Everything Presence Lite, what do you think of it so far? It's been working really well for me, especially the zone detection.
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Home Assistant 2025.7 has released today!
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